I know it's useless to eat it, so how will you report it tomorrow?
It is also ridiculous to be a scholar for agriculture, and pro-state is not bullying.
The middle way of the six classics is exhausted, and there is no hunger in ploughing a hundred acres.
The most intimate place is to spend money on gifts and get familiar with Zhou Gong's July poems.
At the beginning, the poet simply reviewed the past and said, "I know it's useless to eat and drink." The poet told his sons that he knew he was paid by the state, but he didn't make any achievements. His implication is that he regrets this life and hopes that his sons will not repeat the same mistakes. Next, the poet asked his sons, "Why did you report the Ming Dynasty?" What do you use to repay this politically clear era? Asking questions makes the son think about the relationship between the individual and the times. Born in the Taiping era, "the sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the sky is high and the birds fly" is just right. The poet hopes that his sons can grasp this era and realize their personal values.
The poet asked his sons questions, but he didn't ask them to answer. He told them that "being a farmer is also a scholar", and being a farmer is no different from being a scholar. The poet hopes that his sons will not be too obsessed with their external identities. The first thing they should do is to improve their self-cultivation, "love the country without bullying", and be honest without bullying when dealing with state affairs or serving their loved ones. Be sincere, no matter big or small. Honesty is the foundation of our existence. Confucius said: people have no faith, but they don't know what they can do. The poet was deeply influenced by Confucianism and asked his son to be honest first.
The poet asked his sons to combine knowledge with practice, not only to improve their self-cultivation but also to pay attention to practice. He asked his sons to study hard, because the Confucian classics contain endless avenues, which is of great significance to personal promotion. In order to prevent his son from becoming a nerd who is "four-body and not diligent, and the whole grain is not divided", the poet also asked his son to cultivate it himself. Because "one hundred acres are not hungry", the Zhou Dynasty well-field system stipulated that a farmer cultivated one hundred acres, and later used "one hundred acres" to refer to cultivated land. Study hard and you will know the breadth of the road; If you work hard, you will know that farming is not easy. The poet has good intentions.
There is no need to be hypocritical and polite between father and son. After telling his sons a truth, the poet said to them, "The most intimate place is to pay in the present." I'll tell you what I care about most. The poet said this in the hope that his sons would pay attention to what he said. Finally, the poet was still worried and told him to "read Zhou Gong's poems in July". You must read Qi Feng. July "hmm. July is an agricultural poem, which not only reflects the agricultural production activities in the Western Zhou Dynasty, but also reflects the hard life of serfs at that time. The poet wants his sons to read this poem in order to make them pay attention to the farming season, and also to make them pay attention to the working people and sympathize with others.
Farming and reading have been handed down from generation to generation for a long time. This old adage contains the inculcation and ardent expectations of the elders for future generations. In this poem, the poet told his sons not only to learn from the saints, but also to attach importance to agricultural production, and to understand that diligence and sureness are the foundation of settling down.